Composition Of Dietary Supplements Based On Apoptosis that Support Optimal Health

ABSTRACT

This invention clearly identifies the current agriculture-based diseases facing United States citizens such as, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and other degenerative diseases that did not exist in our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The United States government has established the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) to solve the problem. The DGAC&#39;s approach includes exercise, better agricultural based food choices plus vitamins-mineral supplements that are sex and age adjusted. We designed supplement compositions composed of unmodified dried fruits, herbs, including roots and tubers, many of which contain a lot of phytoestrogens. Currently, the medical profession has a bias against phytoestrogens, based on science that we believe is incorrectly interpreted. Today, women are afraid of getting breast cancer, and men are afraid of getting enlarged breasts from phytoestrogens. We will reinterpret the pre-clinical medical studies to alleviate these accepted concerns. Our supplement ingredients are chosen based on the different apoptosis pathways, which they stimulate, modulate or inhibit.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention is in the field of dietary supplements composed ofpre-agrarian food or plant ingredients that modulate apoptosis pathwaysat different intra- and extra-cellular sites to achieve the desiredhealth effects.

BACKGROUND AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART

The government recognizes the problem. Their solution started with theRecommended Daily Allowances (RDA), established by earlier U.S.governmental agencies during World War II for the military, civilian,and overseas populations needing food relief. They were approved in1941, and used until 1997, when the RDA became part of a broader, moredetailed, dietary guideline called the Dietary Reference Intake, (RDI)which is updated every five to ten years.

The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) was establishedjointly by the secretaries of the U.S. Department of Health and HumanServices (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). TheCommittee was charged with examining the Dietary Guidelines forAmericans, 2010 and to determine topics for which new scientificnutritional evidence was available for all Americans, two years andolder.

Estimated Average Requirement, or Adequate Intake Levels, and theTolerable Upper Intake Levels are currently set by the Institute ofMedicine, (IOM). They were determined through the average intake, (orthe excessive intake), by healthy members grouped by sex and age. TheIOM has established both an Average Requirement and the Upper IntakeLevel for vitamins and minerals.

The 2015 DGAC's work was guided by two fundamental realities. First,about half of all American adults—117 million individuals—have one ormore preventable chronic diseases, and second, about two-thirds of U.S.adults—nearly 155 million individuals—are overweight or obese. Theseconditions have been highly prevalent in the general population for morethan two decades. Poor dietary patterns, overconsumption of calories,and physical inactivity, directly contribute to these disorders.

The DGAC have hoped that positive changes in individual diet andphysical activity behaviors would have substantially improved healthoutcomes. This has not been the case.

The DGAC found that several nutrients are still under-consumed relativeto the Estimated Average Requirement or Adequate Intake Levels set bythe Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the committee characterized theseas short-fail nutrients: vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin C,folate, calcium, magnesium, fiber, and potassium. For adolescent andpremenopausal females, iron is also a shortfall nutrient. Of theseshortfall nutrients, calcium, vitamin D, fiber, and potassium also areclassified as nutrients of public health concern, due to underconsumption linked in the scientific literature to adverse healthoutcomes. Iron is included as a shortfall nutrient for adolescentfemales, and adult females, who are premenopausal due to the increasedrisk of iron-deficiency in these groups.

The DGAC also found that two nutrients—sodium and saturated fat—areover-consumed by the U.S. population relative to the Tolerable UpperIntake Level set by the IOM and this over-consumption poses healthrisks.

The sedentary practices of most modern jobs require a fraction of thecalories that our ancestors used when they spent all day farming,gardening, hunting, walking and occasionally running. Therefore, ourdiet requires significantly less calories than our ancestors' diet tomaintain a healthy weight. An overwhelming exercise deficiency startedafter World War II, when people's energy requirements were reduced muchfaster than their energy consumption, resulting in weight problems.Rapid industrialization has created new jobs requiring less energy perhour. The approximate energy in calories required per hour for differentjobs and the activities of an average person, weighing between 150 and155 pounds, is listed below:

Desk job 106 Retail Job 162 Childcare Worker 211 Walking the dog 246 GymTeacher 282 Walking on grass 320 Gardening 352 Hunting, general 352Hiking, cross-country 422 Walking on packed snow 450 Backpacking 493Basketball 563 Baling hay 563 Swimming at a fast pace 665 Walking insnow powder 700 Bicycling very fast 844 Running, 6 min miles 1126

Can more exercise solve the problem? We can start by comparing theenergy required to work at a desk, which is 106 calories per hour, to amore strenuous activity, like gardening, which burns 352 calories perhour. In a typical eight-hour day, the desk job requires 848 calories,where gardening requires 2,816 calories, burning 1,968 more calories perday. The desk-worker would have to swim three hours a day, or walk theirdog eight hours a day to burn the extra calories. This extends thesedentary worker's day to either an 11 or 16-hour day, depending upontheir exercise choice. By the time a person travels to their desk job,works and goes home, most people are both mentally and physically tootired to burn the calories. It is unlikely that more exercise atone willmake much of a difference.

Problems with our modern diet: When agriculture first started about10,000 years ago, it did not bring about an increase in health, butrather the opposite. The first farmers had a shorter lifespan, they weresignificantly smaller, and were generally less healthy than theirhunter-gatherer predecessors. Infant mortality, infectious diseases,bone mineral disorders, dental caries and iron deficiency anemia weregreatly increased (Eaton & Konner, 1985; Eaton, Eaton, & Konner, 1997;Konner & Eaton, 2010).

Today we know that agriculture-based diets have contributed to manyproblems: Heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and other degenerativediseases did not exist in our hunter-gatherer ancestors' time (Cordainet al., 2005). As these new health problems appeared, drugs have beendeveloped to manage the symptoms, but not necessarily the causes. Thedrugs have brought with them a new set of health problems; i.e.toxicities and side effects.

Our food requirements were developed over millions of years byhunter-gatherer diets, creating biochemical requirements for food thatexisted before agriculture. Genetically, our bodies are virtually thesame as they were at the end of the Paleolithic era, 20,000 years ago.The best diet for human health and well-being should resemble ourPaleolithic ancestral diet (Eaton & Konner, 1985; Eaton et al., 1997;Konner & Eaton, 2010).

For example Staffan Lindeberg, a Swedish medical doctor and scientist,conducted several scientific surveys on the non-westernized populationat the Kitava Island in the Solomon Sea. These surveys, collectivelyreferred to as the Kitava Study, found the population currently livingon the hunter-gatherer diet do not suffer from stroke, ischemic heartdisease, diabetes, obesity, or hypertension (Lindeberg & Lundh, 1993).These same findings have been observed in other hunter-gatherers allover the world (London & Beezhold, 2015).

Perhaps the best answer to agriculturally based health challenges is toanalyze the differences in the hunter-gatherer diet and our modern diet.

The hunter gatherer diet: The Paleolithic era extends from 2.5 millionyears ago to 10,000 years ago. The hunter-gatherer diet, also referredto as the “caveman diet” or the “paleolithic diet”, consists mainly offish, range-fed meats, vegetables, fruits, roots, tubers and nuts. Theyconsumed many different fruits and vegetables, from many differentplants in each area that they lived. The caveman diet mainly excludedgrains, legumes, dairy products, refined sugar, salt, and processedvegetable oils (Eaton & Konner, 1985; Eaton et al., 1997; Konner &Eaton, 2010).

The hunter-gatherer diet had fewer calories per gram than the average USdiet. Most fruits and berries contain 0.4 to 0.8 calories per gram;vegetables usually have even less. Modern foods, like hamburgers andsandwiches, have 2.4 to 2.8 calories per gram; cookies and chocolatebars commonly exceed 4 calories per gram. High-energy-dense diets cancontribute to health problems in the following three areas (Cordain etal., 2005; Eaton & Konner, 1985; Eaton et al., 1997; Konner & Eaton,2010).

First, substantial evidence demonstrates that people who consumehigh-energy-dense diets are prone to overeating, because they consume alot more calories before their stomach stretches enough to fell themthat they are full. Consequently, they are at a greater risk of obesity.Conversely, diets with lower caloric density provide a feeling offullness with fewer calories.

Second, not only did the caveman consume fewer calories per bite, he atemore fruits and vegetables, which leads to a much higher fiber intake.Hunter-gatherer diets include uncultivated, high-fibrous fruit andvegetables. Some caveman diets contained more than 100 grams of fiberper day, which is dramatically higher than the current average UnitedStates intake of 115 grams per day.

Third, the cave man diet had more vitamins minerals and antioxidantsthan most of today's diets. Fruits, vegetables, seafood, meat and organmeats were the staples of the hunter-gatherer diet. These foods are moremicronutrient-dense than today's grains, vegetable oils, and dairyproducts. Consequently, the vitamin and mineral content of the cavemandiet was usually many times the current Recommended Daily Allowance.

Lactose Intolerance: Recent evidence indicates that up to 75% of theworld's population is lactose intolerant to some extent That is, threequarters of all people have difficulty digesting the milk sugar calledlactose (Swagerty, Walling, & Klein, 2002).

Domestication of dairy animals, and consumption of milk, started about9,000 years ago in western Asia. DNA samples, from people who lived inEurope 9,000 years ago, revealed that they were lactose-intolerant atthat period in time. Before the domestication of dairy animals, allhuman adults were lactose intolerant based on DNA from ancient burialsites.

Lactose intolerance is a deficiency of lactase, the enzyme in your smallintestine that splits lactose into glucose and galactose. Unlikelactose, glucose and galactose can be absorbed into your blood. Theexcess lactose is digested by bacteria in the intestines, where it cancause gas, cramping, and diarrhea.

In the United States and Europe, the prevalence of lactose intoleranceis 7% to 20% in Caucasian adults, (the lowest being in northernEuropeans), and it is as high as 80% to 95% among Native Americans, 65%to 75% among Africans and African Americans, and 50% in Hispanics.Lactose intolerance develops between ages five and seven in the UnitedStates. No one develops lactose intolerance before age two (Hansen,Brustad, & Johnsen, 2015). Consumption of dairy started ten thousandyears ago, yet most of the world is still lactose-intolerantdemonstrating how long it takes mankind to genetically adapt to newfoods.

What are Leptins? Leptins are hormones that help regulate energy intakeand energy expenditure. They also control appetite and metabolism. Theamount of circulating leptin is directly proportional to the totalamount of fat in the body. Leptins are produced by fat tissue, ovaries,mammary cells, muscle, bone marrow, liver, and gastric cells in thestomach.

Leptins act on brain receptors in the hypothalamus, where they inhibitappetite by counteracting the effects of two powerful appetitestimulants, neuropeptide Y and anandamide. The absence of leptin, orit's receptor, leads to uncontrolled food intake and obesity.

Tommy Jönsson used leptin concentrations to demonstrate that thePaleolithic diet was more satisfying per calorie than the Mediterraneandiet (Jonsson, Granfeldt, Erlanson-Albertsson, Ahrén, & Lindeberg,2010). In other words, the Paleolithic dietary group felt as full as theMediterranean dietary group, but with fewer calories. This helps toexplain why people crave more food even after they have consumed morecalories than needed to maintain their weight.

Advocates of the hunter-gatherer diet believe that fast food, and theconsumption of modern agricultural food, is responsible for the currentepidemic levels of obesity, type-2 diabetes, osteoporosis,cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and cancer (Bowman &Vinyard, 2004; Konner & Eaton, 2010). More than 70% of the total dailyenergy, consumed by all people in the United States, comes from dairyproducts, cereals, refined sugars, processed oils and alcoholicbeverages. These foods did not even exist in the time of thehunter-gatherer.

Many controlled clinical trials have shown that the hunter-gatherer dietis superior to other modern diets, like the Mediterranean diet, whichincludes high olive oil consumption, high consumption of legumes,unrefined cereals, fruits and vegetables (Carter et al., 2014).

Currently, oncologists still advise women to not take phytoestrogens,because they could increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Theconcern comes from two sources. First, hormone replacements, likeestrogen, or estrogen plus progesterone, increase the risk of breastcancer in Western countries. Recently, a similar randomized study, withthe same hormone therapy, was conducted in a nation-wide Taiwanese studyusing 65,723 Chinese women. The hormone therapy increased the risk ofinvasive breast cancer in the Taiwanese women. There was no differencein the risk of estrogen-induced invasive breast cancer in women fromAsian or Western countries, proving no effect caused by geneticdifference between the groups of women (Lai et al., 2011).

Second, estrogen and phytoestrogens are believed to represent a similarcancer risk; based on preclinical evaluations. Oncologists recommendedthat women should be aware of the potential cancer risk fromphytoestrogens. The oncologists' concern has caused women to shy awayfrom phytoestrogens, and for men to be afraid of getting larger breasts.

The interest in phytoestrogens started when epidemiological studiesfound that Asian women, who consume high dietary concentrations of soyproducts, have a lower incidence of breast cancer (Bilal, Chowdhury,Davidson, & Whitehead, 2014).

This prompted scientists to conduct preclinical studies withphytoestrogens. To their surprise low concentrations of phytoestrogensstimulated breast-cancer cell growth in tissue culture and in athymicmice in-vivo studies. Also, it inhibited the anti-tumor effect oftamoxifen, but higher concentrations of the same phytoestrogensinhibited tumor growth and enhanced the effect of tamoxifen. Until themedical profession could explain the difference, they cautioned womenabout the possible increased risk of breast cancer. (Ganry 2002; deLemos 2001; Martin, Horwitz, Ryan, & McGuire, 1978).

Our interpretation of the problem follows: First, the intake oftraditional soy-based foods is high in Japan, and the mean total intakeof isoflavones is estimated to be between 19.4 and 33.6 mg per day,according to a National Nutritional Survey in Japan.

In Western populations, the consumption of isoflavones from traditionalsoy foods is substantially lower between 0.5 and 3 mg (Tousen, Uehara,Abe, Kimira, & Ishimi, 2013). Another scientific group foundphytoestrogens in all food analyzed and reported them to be omnipresent,not limited to soy-based food. (Behr, Oehlmann, & Wagner, 2011)Investigators should have recognized that phytoestrogens are in allfoods. The average Western vegetarian consumes 1-3 mg per day ofisoflavones, while Asians consume about 50 mg per day. (Bilal et al.,2014)

Phytoestrogens are in all fruits, vegetables, nuts, fish, other meatsand surface drinking wafer supplies. In other words, phytoestrogens arein everything we consume. Western populations consume a low daily amountof the phytoestrogens that are shown to increase risk of breast cancer,based on the preclinical tissue culture, and athymic mice studiesmentioned above. This suggests a conclusion that the only saferecommendation for people, who want to avoid breast-cancer risk causedby a diet tow in concentrations of phytoestrogens, is to stop eating alltogether, or increase their consumption to the proven safer amountsconsumed by Asians.

These preclinical findings have been repeated many times, and we believethey are accurate. However, we can explain how low concentrations ofphytoestrogens stimulated breast-cancer cell growth in tissue culture,and in athymic mice in-vivo studies, and inhibited the anti-tumor effectof tamoxifen.

To understand these preclinical findings, a review of the clinicalchemistry of sex hormones is needed. Estrogen represents an entire classof related hormones including estriol, estradiol and estrone. Theplacenta makes estriol during pregnancy. Estradiol is the primary sexhormone of childbearing women. It is made in developing ovarianfollicles, and is responsible for female characteristics and sexualfunctions. Estrone is the primary estrogen made after menopause.

There are two types of serum proteins form dissociable complexes withcirculating sex hormones. Albumin is the most abundant plasma protein,and binds sex hormones, with a very low-binding affinity, predominantlyby hydrophobic binding. The highly specific sex hormone-binding globulin(SHBG), also called the sex steroid-binding globulin (SSBG), occurs inlow concentrations, but binds sex hormones with a very high-bindingaffinity, several orders of magnitude higher than albumin. The relativebinding affinity of various sex hormones for SHBG isdihydrotestosterone>testosterone>androstenediol>estradiol>estrone(Hodgert Jury, Zacharewski, & Hammond, 2000).

Albumin-bound sex hormones constitute an inactive pool, protected frommetabolic and chemical alterations, providing reserve hormones throughreversible dissociation. Albumin also buffers against sudden changes inactive hormone concentrations (Burton & Westphal, 1972).

All human tissue culture mediums contain human and/or animal serums,which automatically come with the sex-hormone bound to the albumin. Thepreclinical findings can be explained using the relative bindingaffinities (RBAs) of sex hormones to albumin by competitivedisplacement. When phytoestrogens are added at tow concentrations to thetissue culture, they competitively displace estrogen from albumin's weakbinding sites. The newly freed estrogen will stimulate the estrogen (+)cancer cells.

As more and more phytoestrogen is added to the tissue culture medium, itwill begin to competitively displace the newly bound phytoestrogen,which results in a net no-effect. Higher concentrations of phytoestrogencan successfully compete with estrogen for the estrogen receptor, andcompetitively inhibit the estrogen effect. The same is true for athymicmice grafted with human estrogen (+) cancer (Hodgert Jury et al., 2000).

How did higher concentrations of the same phytoestrogens enhance theeffect of tamoxifen in the athymic mice grafted with human estrogen (+)cancer? Tamoxifen competes with estrogen for the estrogen receptor justlike phytoestrogens. Tamoxifen is a weak anti-estrogen and has a lowbinding affinity for the estrogen receptor, but it can be metabolized inthe liver by the cytochrome p-450 enzyme system, into 4-Hydroxytamoxifen(4HT) which has 100-fold greater binding affinity for the estrogenreceptor, and a 30-fold to 100-fold greater potency in suppressingestrogen-dependent cell proliferation compared with un-metabolozedTamoxifen. This is why estrogen (+) breast cancer patients have less ofa chance of surviving if they have low cytochrome p-450 activity (Reidet al., 2014).

Recently, the soybean phytoestrogens, genistein and daidzein, have beenshown to significantly increase cytochrome p-450 activity when comparedwith the control group (Bogacz et al., 2014). As in humans, the athymicmouse's cytochrome p-450 liver enzyme system is enhanced by the higherconcentrations phytoestrogens which metabolizes more Tamoxifen info(4HT) that has 100-fold greater binding affinity for the estrogenreceptor, and blocks estrogen's ability to bind the estrogen (+) cancertumor receptors and stimulate its growth.

Induction of apoptosis by phytoestrogens provides another reason forhigher concentrations of phytoestrogens killing human estrogen (+)cancer. Genistein, a soy isoflavone, has been reported to have achemo-preventive and chemotherapeutic potential in multiple tumor types,including MCF-7 human estrogen (+) cancer cells. Genistein increases theproapoptotic BAX/Bcl-2 ratio by a factor of three, and down-regulatesthe protein preventing apoptosis, called survivin, by a factor of 20,resulting in apoptosis and cell death (Prietsch et al., 2014). Thisprovides an additional support, for use of higher concentrations ofphytoestrogens, stopping the growth of estrogen (+) cancer cells.

The epidemiology studies that follow should no longer be in conflictwith the preclinical studies.

A total of 240 South Asian breast cancer cases living in England and 477age-matched population-based controls were recruited into this study.Conditional logistic regression models were used to estimate the effectof phytoestrogen intake on breast cancer risk. Their findings wereconsistent with the possibility that high phytoestrogen intake mayprotect against breast cancer, but further research is required toconfirm this hypothesis, (dos Santos Silva et al., 2004)

A total of 24,226 women ages 40 to 69 years in the Japan Public HealthCenter-based prospective study who responded to the baselinequestionnaire and provided blood in 1980 to 1995 were observed up toDecember 2002. This nested, case-control study found an inverseassociation between plasma genistein and the risk of breast cancer inJapan. (Iwasaki et al., 2008)

Meta-analyses of epidemiological studies of soy consumption and breastcancer risk have demonstrated modest protective effects, usuallyattributed to isoflavones. Importantly, soy does not appear to interferewith tamoxifen or anastrozole therapy. Recent research suggests thatwomen who are at increased risk of breast cancer due to polymorphisms ingenes associated with the disease may especially benefit from high soyisoflavone intake. (Magee & Rowland, 2012)

Adolescent phytoestrogen intake was associated with reducedpostmenopausal breast cancer, particularly for ER+PR+ tumor subgroup.(Anderson, Cotterchio, Boucher, & Kreiger, 2013)

Although concerns have been raised that soy food consumption may beharmful to breast cancer patients, an analysis in 9514 breast cancersurvivors who were followed for 7.4 years found that higher postdiagnosis soy intake was associated with a significant 25% reduction intumor recurrence. In summary, the clinical and epidemiological dataindicate that adding soy foods to the diet can contribute to the healthof postmenopausal women. (Messina 2014)

The summation of these studies prove the incidents of breast cancer havebeen greatly reduced in populations consuming higher amounts ofphytoestrogens, in both the Asian and Western populations, aftercontrolling for cultural dietary differences.

The explanation provided above has not been obvious to our scientificpeers. Today, oncologists still advise women not to take phytoestrogens.Over the last two decades, more than 1200 PubMed articles have beenwritten about phytoestrogen and breast cancer, with conflictingrecommendations. The scientific community has not linked the evidenceprovided in the studies above.

They are still having difficulties reconciling the epidemiologicalstudies with the preclinical studies. For example, in a recentpublication, “Phytoestrogens and prevention of breast cancer: Thecontentious debate,” authors verify that the scientific community isstill biased against phytoestrogens (Bilal et al., 2014).

A 2015 study published by the Chemistry department at the University ofAlabama, authors identified 568 phytochemicals in 17 of the most popularherbal supplements sold in the United States. This study has revealedthat almost all popular herbal supplements contain phytoestrogencomponents, which bind to the human estrogen receptor, and may causeunwanted side effects related to estrogenic activity (Powers & Setzer,2015).

The scientific community still considers phytoestrogens a healthproblem; this is opposed to our belief that their deficiency is a majorcause of a many current agriculture-based diseases.

Instead of resolving the perceived problems, the scientific community isbusy developing new classes off drugs that are highly specificderivatives of phytoestrogens, with a single drug indication.

The World Journal of Clinical Oncology cites that phytoestrogens providemultiple targets on breast cancer cells and their ability to modulateepigenetic events associated with breast cancer, and this prevention maylead to new, non-toxic therapeutic approaches through development ofhighly specific and long-acting analogues of phytoestrogens. (Bilal etal., 2014)

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is involved in numerous humanconditions including neurodegenerative diseases, ischemic damage,autoimmune disorders and many types of cancer, and it is often confusedwith other types of cell death. Therefore, strategies that enablevisualized detection of apoptosis would be of enormous benefit in theclinic for diagnosis, patient management, and the development of newtherapies. (Zeng et al., 2015)

Since apoptosis is typically disrupted in human cancers, therapeutictargeting of apoptosis represents a promising avenue for the developmentof novel therapeutic approaches. This strategy is particularly relevant,because many currently used cancer therapies use apoptosis signalingpathways to exert their anti-tumor activities. A better understanding ofthese signaling networks and their deregulation of human cancers isanticipated to open new perspectives for the development ofapoptosis-targeted therapies for the treatment of cancer. (Fulda 2015)

Apoptosis imaging is expected to make major contributions topersonalized medicine by allowing earlier diagnosis and predictingtreatment response. The technique is also making a huge impact onpharmaceutical development by optimizing preclinical and clinical testsfor new drug candidates. This review will describe the basic principlesof molecular imaging and will briefly touch on three examples (from animmense list of new techniques) that may contribute to personalizedmedicine: receptor imaging, angiogenesis imaging, and apoptosis imaging.(Jung & Lee, 2015)

Apoptosis screens are being used to discover new drugs, not to for arational supplement design. These derivatives, and their analogues, willbe considered a New Chemical Entity (NCE) by the FDA, and will require aNew Drug Application (NDA) before they can enter the market. As of April2015, there were 1446 PubMed articles on phytoestrogen derivatives,including 56 PubMed articles on phytoestrogen analogues. Most new drugsare derivatives of naturally occurring molecules from plants, fungus andother life forms. Using molecular drug design methods, drug companiesare able to synthesize NCEs with more potency and efficiency, but NCEsusually have unexpected and unintended clinical problems. On thepositive side, NCEs are easy to patent.

NCEs go through preclinical pharmaceutical screening taking two to fiveyears before starting human clinical trials. If the preclinical studiesare found to be satisfactory, the drug companies and FDA jointly developand agree on the clinical studies for each phase. This process can takemore than fen years.

Drug companies and the government are spending billions to develop abetter understanding of the apoptosis signaling pathways and to developNCEs. They plan to open new perspectives for the development ofapoptosis-targeted therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, ischemicdamages, autoimmune disorders and many types of cancer.

In summary, the medical professionals, drug companies, as well as theNIH and the FDA, are excited about the potential new apoptosis-baseddrug approaches for the agriculture-based diseases.

Cells die either by necrosis or apoptis: Cells that die, as a result ofinjury, swell and spill their contents all over their neighbors. Thisprocess is called cell necrosis, and usually results in a damaginginflammatory response. By contrast, a cell undergoing apoptosis dieswithout damaging its neighbors. This cell shrinks, condenses, and thencollapses. Next, the nuclear membrane surrounding the nucleusdisassembles. Subsequently, the nuclear DNA breaks up into fragments.The cell surface structure is altered to cause it to be rapidlyphagocytosed, either by a neighboring cell, or by a macrophage. Everyminute of life, millions of cells in our bodies undergo this naturallyregulated form of cell death, called apoptosis. Apoptosis is the naturaland healthy end to damaged or abnormal cells (Lopez & Tait, 2015).

The apoptis pathways: Apoptosis has been recognized, with the advent ofmore sensitive biochemical assays in the mid-1980s, through evidencedemonstrating mitochondria's central role in apoptotic cell death.Caspase protease activity is essential for apoptosis. Once activated,caspase enzymes cleave hundreds of different proteins, leading to rapidcell death with distinctive biochemical and morphological hallmarks(Taylor, Cullen, & Martin, 2008).

In general terms, caspase activity can be initiated extrinsically to thecell by the cell-surface death-receptors, (reviewed in (Dickens, Powley,Hughes, & MacFarlane, 2012)) or intrinsically to the cell, bymitochondrial pathways of apoptosis (Tait & Green, 2010).

The defining event for apoptosis is the ‘Mitochondrial Outer MembranePermeabilization’ (MOMP). Following MOMP, the mitochondrial proteins inthe inter-membrane space, notably cytochrome c, is released into thecytosol, whereupon it activates the caspases. Cytochrome c has a normalfunction; shuttling electrons between complexes III and IV of theelectron transport chain. However, once released from mitochondria,cytochrome c adopts a lethal function essential for caspase activation.Once in the cytosol, cytochrome c binds to the adaptor molecule, called‘Apoptotic Protease Activating Factor-1’ (APAF-1); leading to extensiveconformational changes in APAF-1, causing if to oligomerise and form aheptameric structure called an apoptosome.

The apoptosome signals, recruits, and activates pro-caspase-9. Thisprotein, in turn, will cleave and activate the executioners: caspases-3and caspases-7. This executioner caspase activity effectively kills thecell within minutes, through the parallel cleavage of hundreds of cellcomponents.

Besides cytochrome c, the mitochondria release of a variety of otherproteins that promote caspase activity following (MOMP), is a ‘SecondMitochondria-derived Activator of Caspases’ (SMAC), also called‘Diablo’. In addition, cytochrome c causes the release of ‘Omi’, alsocalled HtrA2, a serine protease enzyme that blocks the endogenousinhibitor of caspase function, an ‘X-linked Inhibitor of ApoptosisProtein’ (XIAP). SMAC and Omi facilitate caspase activity. Importantly,MOMP often leads to cell death irrespective of caspase activity (Tait,Ichim, & Green, 2014). This alternate caspase-independent form of celldeath, most likely relates to the extensive nature of MOMP, such thatoften all cellular mitochondria undergo permeabilization; leading to aprogressive and overwhelming loss of mitochondrial function (Lartigue etal., 2009). If is important to note that most stimuli induce apoptosisvia the mitochondrial pathways.

Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) is a cytokine mainly produced by activatedmacrophages, and it is the major extrinsic mediator of apoptosis. Mostcells in the human body have two receptors for TNF: the TNF-R1, andTNF-R2. The binding of TNF to the TNF-R1 has been shown to initiate apathway, which leads to caspase activation, via the intermediatemembrane proteins, called the ‘TNF Receptor-Associated Death Domain’(TRADD) or the ‘Fas-Associated Death Domain’ (FADD).

The first apoptosis signal (Fas) also known as Apo-1 or CD95 binds tothe Fas ligand (FasL), a transmembrane protein that is part of the TNFfamily. The interaction between Fas and Fast results in the formation ofthe ‘Death-Inducing Signaling Complex’ (DISC), which contains the FADD,caspase-8 and caspase-10 (Chou et al., 2015).

Components of the Bcl-2 family: Following TNF-R1 or FADD activation inmammalian cells, apoptosis is determined by the balance between themembers of the Bcl-2 family, the proapoptotic members (BAX, BID, BAK, orBAD) and anti-apoptotic members (Bcl-XI and Bcl-X2). If the balance isin favor of proapoptotic homodimers located in the outer-membrane of themitochondria, the mitochondrial membrane will become permeable andrelease the caspase activators, such as cytochrome c and SMAC. Thecontrol of proapoptotic proteins by non-apoptotic proteins is notcompletely understood, but in general, proapoptotic members areactivated by the BH3 proteins, part of the Bcl-2 family, firstidentified in B-cell lymphoma 2. (Chou et al., 2015).

(Bcl-2) is encoded in humans by the Bcl-2 gene, which is the foundingmember of the Bcl-2 family of regulatory proteins. They regulateapoptosis by either inducing (proapoptotic proteins) or inhibiting it(anti-apoptotic proteins). Bcl-2 is specifically considered as animportant anti-apoptotic protein and is thus classified as an oncogene.(Williams & Cook, 2015)

Caspases are cysteine-dependent aspartate-specific proteases. There aretwo types of caspases: initiator caspases and effector caspases. Theactivation of initiator caspases requires binding by a specificoligomeric activation protein. Effector caspases are then activated byinitiator caspases through proteolytic cleavage. The active effectorcaspases then proteolytically degrade a host of intracellular proteinsto carry out the cell death program. Caspases are proteases with awell-defined role in apoptosis, but increasing evidence indicates thereare multiple functions for caspases other than apoptosis. Caspase-1 andcaspase-11 have roles in mediating inflammatory cell death by pyroptosis(Shalini, Dorstyn, Dawar, & Kumar, 2014).

Caspase-independent apoptic pathway: Apoptosis can also be induced bythe caspase-independent pathway called the ‘Apoptosis-Inducing Factor’(AIF) (Broker, Kruyt, & Giaccone, 2005).

P53 is a tumor-suppressor protein. If accumulates when DNA is damaged bya chain of biochemical factors. Part of this pathway includesalpha-interferon and beta-interferon, which induce transcription of thep53 gene, resulting in the increase of p53 protein level and enhancementof cancer cell apoptosis. First, p53 prevents the cell from replicatingby stopping the cell cycle at G1, the interphase, it gives the cell timeto repair; however, it will induce apoptosis if damage is extensive andrepair efforts fail. Any disruption to the regulation of the p53 orinterferon genes will result in impaired apoptosis and the possibleformation of tumors (Pflaum, Schlosser, & Müller, 2014). Cell cycle canalso be arrested in the G2/M phase by the intrinsic apoptosis proteins,p21 or p27 (Li et al., 2015).

THE PRIOR ART

Currently, no supplements like the ones described in this patent are onthe market.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Almost daily, we learn about new benefits from the hunter-gatherer diet.For example, in an examination of genetically similar tribes, withdivergent food resources, a marked difference exists in dietary results.The Amazonian Kawymeno Waorani hunter-gatherer's eyes were recentlyexamined. To the doctor's surprise, myopia, or nearsightedness, did notexist in the tribe at any age. However, the neighboring Kichwa agrariantribe were found to have myopia at the normal rate (London & Beezhold,2015). The significant divergence between the two tribes is a result ofthe difference in their diet.

About ten thousand years ago, man started moving from hunter-gathererfood to an agricultural diet. This change in food resulted in increasedinfant mortality, and the currently discussed agriculture-baseddiseases.

We believe that agriculture-based diets are missing essential plantingredients that regulate apoptosis pathways. Also, we consider thatmany of today's diseases result from a deficiency of apoptosismodulation provided by phytoestrogens. As previously documented, most ofthe medical and scientific community currently advocate the opposite.

As explained above, both testosterone and estradiol circulate in thebloodstream, bound mostly (60 to 70%) to the sex hormone-bindingglobulin (SHBG), and to a lesser extent, sex hormones are bound to serumalbumin (30 to 40%). Only 1-2% of sex hormones are unbound or free, andonly the free unbound form of a hormone can have an effect, and activateits receptor. The bound hormones are protected from being metabolized inthe liver until they are needed. Phytoestrogens compete with the sexhormones for their binding sites on SHBG, and albumin, resulting infree, active hormones, which would optimize their respective mate andfemale characteristics.

More androgens would keep men and women stronger throughout their life,and reduce or prevent post-menopausal problems currently experienced bywomen. Today, up to 50% of healthy men, between ages 50 to 70, havelower than normal levels of testosterone. The average Western vegetarianconsumes 1-3 mg per day of isoflavones, while Asians consume about 50 mgper day. (Bilal et al., 2014). If phytoestrogens are consumed in greaterquantities, people would have strong bones Dike those ofhunter-gatherers, current hormone replacement therapy could possibly beeliminated.

Furthermore, new science is emerging that indicate how phytoestrogensmodulate apoptosis, which repair or eliminate aberrant pre-diseasecells. We also believe the absence of the phytoestrogens havecontributed to many of the agriculture-based diseases currently facingUnited States citizens.

Hunter-gatherers learned that certain food choices, and foodcombinations, made them sick. They observed the food consumed by animalsand other people, then made their choices randomly.

We describe supplements that provide healthy structural and functionalsupport for bones, joints, nerves, brain, endocrine and immune systems.Then we targeted ingredients based on the apoptosis pathways theymodulate. Otherwise, our supplement ingredient selections would have tobe made by trial and error. Our approach tailors the food supplement tothe apoptosis required for that system.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

A 2013 study, from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, estimatedthat there are about 65,000 dietary supplements on the market, consumedby more than 150 million Americans. People have too many choices, andmost of these current ingredient choices are not based on good science.Our supplement ingredients are selected based on the apoptosis pathwaysthey modulate.

For example, we choose ingredients that reduce inflammation in bones andjoints by modulating the targeted apoptosis pathways. We choose otheringredients to stop defective cells from reproducing, and to help themrepair themselves. If they cannot be repaired, the ingredients stimulateapoptosis, and consequently remove defective cells without causingharmful inflammation.

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is involved in numerous humanconditions including neurodegenerative diseases, ischemic damage,auto-immune disorders and many types of cancer. (Zeng et al., 2015) Inthese cases, we pick ingredients that stimulate both the intrinsic andextrinsic apoptosis pathways at different sites.

This rational scientific approach enables us to select ingredients thatdo not duplicate the desired effect, or even worse, cancel out thedesired effects. We select ingredients that work at different apoptosispathway sites and in other selected pathways to achieve the desiredoutcomes. Otherwise, our selections would be made by trial and error, asin food supplement markets. Supplements can have no effect, or possiblyeven a negative effect, when selected without an understanding of theapoptosis pathways.

Seven Characteristics Desired for Apoptosis-Based Daily Supplements

First, at least one of the daily dietary supplements should contain atleast two different ingredients that modulate apoptis pathways atdifferent sites or pathways promoting the desired outcome.

It should also be clear that the apoptotic pathways were not originallyput here by our creator for us to develop new drugs. The pathways weredesigned to keep us healthy when we eat the food God provided. Webelieve that cancer is not always the result of an overgrowth of cells.

Instead, cancer is sometimes caused from a deficiency of apoptosis inaberrant, pre-cancer cells. Apoptosis is generally the safest, and mostcommon method that the body uses to eliminate damaged, precancerous orunneeded cells. When cells cannot be repaired, apoptosis is turned on,and then the cell is safely eliminated. Apoptosis is controlled by cellsignals that can originate from inside (intrinsic pathways) or outside(extrinsic pathways) the cell. So, affecting apoptosis is another wayfood, or food supplements, maintain and support good health.

Second, at least one of the daily dietary supplements should contain thegalactins like those found in human milk and plant manna.

Manna exudates from the leaves or branches of plants and frees, and fromplant punctures made by insects, or artificial plant incisions. If isusually associated with hot, dry climates of the world, but manna isfound all over the globe, including the Americas. European residents, ortravelers in the east, adopted Pedro Teixeira's (ca, 1590) descriptionof, “All mana,” as sap or gum from one tree or another is affirmed, andthe traditional stories of if coming with dew, are inventions based onbad evidence (Donkin 1980).

Manna is the lifeblood of plants; if contains saccharides, proteins,vitamins and minerals. Several tree gums have been used during faminesto sustain life around the world, for months at a time.

Dr. Bill McAnalley, a co-inventor of this patent application, attendedan Aboriginal medicinal field trip near Alice Springs, Australia in2002. During the field trip, he was able to witness acacia trees, withleaves having small holes made by insects. The sap leaked from the holesin the leaves, and quickly dried into very thin threads, six to twentyinches long. It looked and tasted like cotton candy. The aboriginal tourguide said that it was a favorite of the Aboriginal children, andinformed Dr. McAnalley that in English their word translates as ‘manna’.The following studies demonstrate some of the health benefits of manna.

African Acacia Senegal manna significantly relieved adenine-inducedchronic renal failure in rats. It reduced TNF-α, a pro-inflammatorycytokine. The oxidative stress markers, glutathione and superoxidedismutase, were also significantly reduced (Ali et al., 2013).

A randomized, double-blind study using 427 college students who receivedeither 2.5, or 5.0 grams per day, of a galactan (mannan) supplementationfor eight weeks, during the time of their fall final exams. Theinvestigators found that the supplement significantly (P=0.0002) reducedthe frequency of acute psychological stress induced gastrointestinaldysfunction and the number of days with a cold or flu (Hughes et al.,2011).

Manna is composed of both, soluble and insoluble galactan fibers. Thetype of fiber is related to the development of colon cancer. In apopulation-based fiber study conducted with 231 subjects and 391controls in Utah between 1979 and 1983, some of the fibers tested,consistently decreased the risk of colon cancer in both males andfemales. Of the non-cellulose polysaccharides examined, fiberscontaining mannose and galactose were most protective against cancers inthe ascending colon of males, whereas fibers containing galactose anduronic acid were most protective against cancers in the ascending colonin females. A high intake of fruits and vegetables was also associatedwith the reduction of colon cancer in males and females. High intake ofgrain cellulose fiber was not protective against colon cancer (Slatteryet al., 1988).

All grains are members of the grass family and were not a regular partof the hunter-gatherer's diet. Grasses were not exploited as food until12,000 years ago, when they were first domesticated and evolved intotoday's grains (Liu, Bestel, Shi, Song, & Chen, 2013). Thehunter-gatherer's biochemistry had not adjusted to using cellulose fiberfrom grains.

Grains did enable people for the first time to feed and maintainanimals, which provided a regular supply of red meat and milk. Mostpeople are aware of the health problems associated with lactoseintolerance, and too much red meat.

Today, approximately 70% of the adult human population world-wide islactose intolerant (Hansen et al., 2015). This demonstrates how long itfakes for mankind to genetically adapt to new foods, like milk andgrains. This also explains why grain fiber is not protective againstcancers in the ascending colon.

Mother's milk contains everything a baby human needs to grow and behealthy. Mother's first milk, colostrum, contains IgA antibodies made bythe mother to protect her baby against local pathogens when first born.A newborn baby's gastrointestinal tract is sterile; when bacteria isfirst introduced from their environment and/or the mother's skin, asbabies start to nurse, lactoferrin is the major protein in milk, and itacts as an anti-inflammatory by turning off these inflammatorycytokines: IL-1, IL-6 and TNF-α. These cytokines are produced when thebaby's gut begins to grow newly introduced bacteria, probiotics. Thishelps to explain why breast-fed babies lose significantly less weightthan bottle-fed babies during the first week of feeding. Inflammatoryresponses burn more calories resulting in weight loss (Ben et al.,2008).

Lactose is the major sugar in milk, a disaccharide composed of galactoseand glucose. Human milk also contains a high concentration ofgalacto-oligosaccharides, however, cow's milk contains only traceamounts of these oligosaccharides (Hanson, Korotkova, & Telemo, 2003).Galacto-oligosaccharides are small galactans, only recently added tobaby milk formulas to stimulate the growth of intestinal Bifidobacteriaand Lactobacilli (Ben et al., 2008). Mother's milk provides smallgalactans to feed and maintain a healthy live culture of probiotics,which are required for the baby to successfully digest food. This isnecessary for the baby to shift, when moving from mother's milk tohunter-gatherer food. Then galactan fibers in the hunter-gatherer'sfood, like manna, fake over the job of feeding the required probiotics.

The protective effect of fruit and vegetable fibers appear to be relatedto the galactose content (Evans et al., 2002). This provides furtherevidence for the association between diet fiber types and colon cancer.If appears to be caused mainly by a deficiency of galactans.

Third, most current supplements require too many unwanted ingredients.Dietary supplements are best when made without flowing agents, bindingagents, or fillers needed for modern drug manufacturing processes. Thiswill insure better compliance by requiring fewer and smaller capsulesper daily dose.

Current automatic encapsulating and tablet machines, initially designedfor the drug industry, and require standard flowing, filling and bindingagents. If these machines were used, our products would contain from 5%to 20% of the desired supplement ingredients. This requires the consumerto take as many as 20 capsules, or tablets, to get the same amount ofthe desired supplement ingredients from 1 capsule filled manually.

A recent investigation, reported by CBS News 2/11/15, 11:15 AM, led byNew York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, focused on a variety ofherbal supplements from four major retailers: GNC, Target, Walmart andWalgreens. Lab tests determined that only 21 percent of the productsactually had DNA from the plants advertised on the labels. Some of theproducts only contained filler. The retailer with the poorest showingwas Walmart, where only 4 percent of the products tested showed DNA fromthe plants listed on the labels.

“This investigation makes one thing abundantly clear: The old adage‘buyer beware’ may be especially true for consumers of herbalsupplements,” Schneiderman said. His office issued cease and desistletters to the retailers felling them to stop sales of the products.

The automated tableting and capsuling machines were designed to be usedby the drug industry, not the supplement industry. For example, a 5milligram prednisone drug tablet may weight 250 milligrams, giving atablet with 2% active ingredient and 98% flowing, filling and bindingagents used in tableting production. Automated machines work well withhighly potent drugs that require small amounts of active ingredients tobe effective. A manual manufacturing process must be used to allow themost parsimonious method for supplemental products.

Fourth, daily dietary supplements should contain at least one ingredientthat is an adaptogen.

Adaptogens are supplements that nourish the whole body and support avariety of cellular structures and functions. Their nourishment enablesthe body to more effectively deal with both emotional and physicalstresses. Drugs are designed to target a specific area of physiology.

For example, the Russians developed a supplement largely made fromSiberian ginseng, an adaptogen, which enhanced their Olympic athlete'sperformance. (Personal communication with a Russian scientist).

Fifth, a daily dietary supplement should contain the DGAC shortfallnutrients in food form.

Hunter-gatherer foods contain the DGAC short-fall nutrients in foodform: vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin C, folate, calcium,magnesium, fiber, and potassium. For adolescent and premenopausalfemales, iron is also a shortfall nutrient.

Sixth, at least one dietary supplement should be specifically designedto stimulate the immune system at many areas needed. The immune systemsupplements can be taken every day, but they are most effective if takenbefore going into the places where sick people are concentrated. Taking2-3 doses immediately before or after exposure to sick people, whentraveling, shopping, going to hospitals, games or churches, etc. is thebest protocol.

As previously documented, intrinsic and extrinsic apoptosis pathways mayprevent viral, and bacterial infection.

Seventh, every dietary supplement should be chemically tested to assureconsistency, batch to batch.

Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy is based on theprinciple that molecules can absorb certain wavelengths in theelectromagnetic spectrum. This absorption can be attributed to thedifferent bond groups, or functional groups, that are contained in themolecule. The intensity, shape and position of the peaks in the spectrumgive the quality details for the sample being analyzed.

Many industries use FT-IR spectroscopy to analyze chemicals orcomponents both to study chemical structures, and in many industries, asa screening tool to make sure a chemical, or component, is in fact whatit is supposed to be. For example, in the dietary supplement industryFT-IR spectroscopy can be used to compare the chemical spectrum of aningredient or component to a library of known ingredients. With moderncomputer programs, the computer can compare the spectra, and give withina degree of certainty that an ingredient or component is the same as thedesired known ingredient.

As should be expected, there will be some variation from one sample of anatural or whole food ingredient to another. This is due to variationsfrom one plant to the next, from one growing region to the next and justas relevant, from one year to the next. Expecting the spectra to match100% with the library, or an ingredient standard, would be absurd.

However, one could utilize FT-IR spectroscopy to make sure that there isan adequate or desired amount of a certain functional or bond groupwithin

-   -   a sample    -   a mixture of different ingredients, or    -   a mixture of the same ingredient from different suppliers or        batches from the same supplier.

Using the same principle one could utilize FT-IR spectroscopy to get adesired level of functional groups by

-   -   mixing different ingredients or samples,    -   mixing different mixtures,    -   fortifying a sample or ingredient that is “the same” from one        supply with another    -   fortifying a mixture with an ingredient or sample from a        different supply,    -   fortifying a mixture with another mixture

This must not be obvious to the supplement industry, or many retailerslike, GNC, Target, Walmart and Walgreens would not have been sellingfraudulent supplements.

CONCLUSION

Scientists ail over the world are using apoptosis screens to identifysingle ingredients that can be chemically modified into new chemicalentities for specific drug uses. Alternatively, we use the apoptosisscreens to identify pre-agriculture plants, mannas, fruits, vegetables,roots, leaves and stems that effect the specific desired apoptosispathways. Then we combined these ingredients to make supplementcompositions composed of many naturally occurring ingredients.

The compositions of the ingredients are selected based on targetedapoptosis effects that should reduce, and hopefully, eliminate some ofthe current agriculture-based diseases. We have explained whyphytoestrogens are not a problem; instead their deficiency mayultimately be responsible for many common current health problems.

Using the apoptosis pathways studies, we can provide supplements thatsupport the structure and function for the endocrine and immune system,bones, joints, nerves, and the brain. The ingredients are selected basedon the apoptosis pathways that they modulate.

What is an effective amount of our dietary supplements? In theory anyamount of a dietary supplement ingredient can have some effect. FDA hasestablished a Daily Value (DV) in their food labeling guide (21CFR101.9(c)) for 32 nutrients in foods. 2% of the DV is the FDA's labelguide for ingredient amounts that can be effective when added to theirdiet.

Daily Values are based on the RDAs for fats, carbohydrates, proteins,fiber, vitamins and minerals. However, RDAs have not been establishedfor herbs, fruits, roots, spices and other botanicals.

Ingredients contain 80% to 90% water, some, like Aloe vera gel contain99.5% water. Our supplements must be free of moisture (for examplefreeze-dried) to be stable until consumed. Freeze-dried foods, storedwithout oxygen, can last up to 30 years.

One ounce (wt.) of a fresh hydrated ingredient is 28.35 grams. Assumingan average of 90% water, then the weight of one ounce dehydrated is2.835 grams. This amount of dried (manna, roots, fruits or herbs) hasbeen shown to be effective by itself.

For Example, in a randomized, double-blind study using 427 collegestudents who received either 2.5, or 5.0 grams per day, of a galactan(mannan) supplementation for eight weeks, during the time of their fallfinal exams, the investigators found that the supplement significantly(P=0.0002) reduced the frequency of acute psychological stress inducedgastrointestinal dysfunction and the number of days with a cold or flu(Hughes et al., 2011).

We have found that an immediate effective amount of dried ingredientssuch as manna, roots, fruits or herbs individually or in combination is2.5 grams. Our supplements contain 625-750 milligrams per capsule.Therefore 4 capsules taken at once or two capsules in the morning andtwo in the evening is 2.5 to 3 grams, an effective dose in all subjectswe have tested.

Many of our test subjects have found that one capsule containing 500milligrams per day of the compositions in examples 1-8 described belowis an effective maintenance dose. Using 500 milligrams as the DV, 2% ofthe DV is 10 milligrams an amount that may have some effect. 10milligrams is a tot considering that many cellular apoptosis moleculesare measured in picograms.

DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THIS PATENT

Adaptogens are supplements that nourish the whole body and support avariety of cellular structures and functions. Their nourishment enablesthe body to more effectively deal with both emotional and physicalstresses.

Apoptosis is also known as programmed cell death. This is nature's wayof eliminating unhealthy cells that no longer function properly andcannot repair themselves. The average human body replaces an estimatedone million cells per second or an average two billion defective cellsdaily by apoptosis. Pre-agricultural foods provided the nutrients thebody needs to effectively use its apoptosis pathways and be healthy.

Effective amounts are as little as 10 milligrams per day. We prefer togive 2-3 grams per day of each supplement in examples 1-8 describedbelow for a month as a loading dose, to achieve an effect, then let theindividual gradually adjust the amount until they find their individualeffective amount, (see explanation above for more detail)

Food form nutrients are not chemically synthesized, or isolated, from aplant but are contained in the natural dried (preferably freeze-dried)plant matrix.

Immune system modulators are ingredients that can adjust the immuneresponse, to a desired level, by immuno-potentiation orimmuno-suppression and can induce immunological tolerance.

Ingredients include hunter-gatherer foods, like manna or geneticallyunmodified pre-agricultural foods, especially roots and tubers, herbs,fruits, vegetables or spices from plants, or plant parts.

Manna is a common food of Hunter-gatherers, the exudates from the leavesor branches of shrubs, or trees, or from punctures by insects, orartificial incisions in those plants. When pollen is in short supply, itis often used by bees to make honey.

EXAMPLES OF COMPOSITIONS

Use FT-IR spectroscopy on all of the dietary supplement components, andfinal compositions, to assure supplement consistency from batch tobatch. All supplement compositions will be supplied in capsules, or asbulk powder, without any flowing agents, binding agents or fillers”.

Example 1 A Dietary Supplement Composed of these Ingredients

The following studies were used to select two ingredients to supportapoptosis at different sites and one manna ingredient to providegalactans for colon health.

250 milligrams of Trichosanthes kirilowii recently shown tosignificantly induced G2-M arrest, and apoptosis in non-small cell lungcancer cell growth (Ni et al., 2015). A Trichosanthes kirilowii ethanolextract reduced cisplatin-induced acute renal failure by increasinganti-oxidative enzyme levels, decreased lipid peroxidation levels andreduced histopathological alterations in the kidney with decreasedapoptotic cells (Seo et al., 2015). A polysaccharide of Trichosantheskirilowii can induce the apoptosis of MCF-7 estrogen (+) breast cancercells, by the activation of intracellular Caspase-3 and Caspase-8 (Cao,Xu, Xu, Jin, & Shen, 2012).

250 milligrams of Dioscorea opposita, Chinese yam, that containscomponents that promoted the proliferation of human endometrialepithelial cells by up regulating Bcl-2 and down regulating theBax/Bcl-2 ratio (Ju, Xue, Huang, Zhai, & Wang, 2014).

250 milligrams of Brazilian Acacia mearnsii gum, a manna, that containsgalactans with approximately 40%—galactose, 30%—arabinose, 17%—uronicacids, 10%—rhamnose with a trace of glucose (Grein et al., 2013). Putthe ingredients in a capsule without standard flowing agents, bindingagents or fillers and take four of these capsules a day for a dose of 3grams.

Example 2 A Dietary Supplement Comprised of these Ingredients

The following studies were used to select three ingredients to supportapoptosis at different sites and one manna ingredient to providegalactans for colon heath.

200 milligrams of Trichosanthes kirilowii recently shown tosignificantly induced G2-M arrest, and apoptosis in non-small cell lungcancer cell growth (Ni et al., 2015). A Trichosanthes kirilowii ethanolextract reduced cisplatin-induced acute renal failure by increasinganti-oxidative enzyme levels, decreased lipid peroxidation levels andreduced histopathological alterations in the kidney with decreasedapoptotic cells (Seo et al., 2015). A polysaccharide of Trichosantheskirilowii can induce the apoptosis of MCF-7 estrogen (+) breast cancercells, by the activation of intracellular Caspase-3 and Caspase-8 (Cao,Xu, Xu, Jin, & Shen, 2012).

200 milligrams of Dioscorea opposita, Chinese yam, that containscomponents that promoted the proliferation of human endometrialepithelial cells by up regulating Bcl-2 and down regulating theBax/Bcl-2 ratio (Ju, Xue, Huang, Zhai, & Wang, 2014).

100 milligrams of Curcuma tonga, turmeric roof, powder that providesapoptosis support at these sites, NF-κB, p38 and p53. (Jiang, Jiang, Li,& Zheng, 2015).

250 milligrams of Brazilian Acacia mearnsii gum tree that contains agalactan with approximately 40%—galactose, 30%—arabinose, 17%—uronicacids, 10%—rhamnose with a trace of glucose (Grein et al., 2013). Putthe ingredients in a capsule without standard flowing agents, bindingagents or fillers and fake four of these capsules a day for a dose of 3grams.

Example 3 A Dietary Supplement Comprised of these Ingredients

The following studies were used to select three ingredients to supportapoptosis at different sites, one manna ingredient to provide galactansfor colon heath, one adaptogen, to nourish the whole body and support avariety of cellular structures and functions.

150 milligrams of Trichosanthes kirilowii recently shown tosignificantly induced G2-M arrest, and apoptosis in non-small cell lungcancer cell growth (Ni et al., 2015). A Trichosanthes kirilowii ethanolextract reduced cisplatin-induced acute renal failure by increasinganti-oxidative enzyme levels, decreased lipid peroxidation levels andreduced histopathological alterations in the kidney with decreasedapoptotic cells (Seo et al., 2015). A polysaccharide of Trichosantheskirilowii can induce the apoptosis of MCF-7 estrogen (+) breast cancercells, by the activation of intracellular Caspase-3 and Caspase-8 (Cao,Xu, Xu, Jin, & Shen, 2012).

150 milligrams of Dioscorea opposita, Chinese yam, that containscomponents that promoted the proliferation of human endometrialepithelial cells by up regulating Bcl-2 and down regulating theBax/Bcl-2 ratio (Ju, Xue, Huang, Zhai, & Wang, 2014).

150 milligrams of Curcuma tonga, turmeric root, powder that providesapoptosis support at these sites, NF-κB, p38 and p53. (Jiang, Jiang, Li,& Zheng, 2015).

150 milligrams of Brazilian Acacia mearnsii gum tree that contains agalactan with approximately 40%—galactose, 30%—arabinose, 17%—uronicacids, 10%—rhamnose with a trace of glucose (Grein et al., 2013).

150 milligrams of Siberian ginseng, Eieutherococcus senticosus, orgolden root, Rhodiola rosea, to the dietary supplement composition inexample 2 above. Both, are fully compliant with the definition of anadaptogen (Panossian & Wagner, 2005). Put the ingredients in a capsulewithout standard flowing agents, binding agents or fillers and take fourof these capsules a day for a dose of 3 grams.

Example 4 A Dietary Supplement Comprised of these Ingredients

The following studies were used to select three ingredients to supportapoptosis at different sites, one manna ingredient to provide galactansfor colon heath, one adaptogen, to nourish the whole body and support avariety of cellular structures and functions, and one ingredient tosupply DGAC shortfall nutrients.

100 milligrams of Trichosanthes kirilowii recently shown tosignificantly induced G2-M arrest, and apoptosis in non-small cell lungcancer cell growth (Ni et al., 2015). A Trichosanthes kirilowii ethanolextract reduced cisplatin-induced acute renal failure by increasinganti-oxidative enzyme levels, decreased lipid peroxidation levels andreduced histopathological alterations in the kidney with decreasedapoptotic cells (Seo et al., 2015). A polysaccharide of Trichosantheskirilowii can induce the apoptosis of MCF-7 estrogen (+) breast cancercells, by the activation of intracellular Caspase-3 and Caspase-8 (Cao,Xu, Xu, Jin, & Shen, 2012).

100 milligrams of Dioscorea opposita, Chinese yam, that containscomponents that promoted the proliferation of human endometrialepithelial cells by up regulating Bcl-2 and down regulating theBax/Bcl-2 ratio (Ju, Xue, Huang, Zhai, & Wang, 2014).

100 milligrams of Brazilian Acacia mearnsii gum tree that contains agalactan with approximately 40%—galactose, 30%—arabinose, 17%—uronicacids, 10%—rhamnose with a trace of glucose (Grein et al., 2013).

100 milligrams of Curcuma tonga, turmeric roof, powder that providesapoptosis support at these sites, NF-k B, p38 and p53. (Jiang, Jiang,Li, & Zheng, 2015).

100 milligrams of Siberian ginseng, Eleutherococcus senticosus, orgolden roof, Rhodiola rosea, Both, are fully compliant with thedefinition of an adaptogen (Panossian & Wagner, 2005). Put theingredients in capsules containing 750 mg each without standard flowingagents, binding agents or fillers and fake four capsules daily for adaily dose of 3 grams.

250 milligrams of Baobab fruit, Adansonia digitata L, Adansonia digitataL. is known as the ‘tree of life’ and ‘the king of fruits’. It is richin antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, C, Magnesium,Calcium, Potassium, Manganese, Zinc, Phosphorus, Iron, protein anddietary fiber (soluble and insoluble). Baobab fruit contains six timesthe vitamin C found in oranges, three times the iron found in spinach,three times the antioxidants found in blueberries, three times thecalcium found in milk, and six times the potassium of bananas.Freeze-dried powder contains food form DGAC shortfall nutrients. Put theingredients in a capsule without standard flowing agents, binding agentsor fillers and take four of these capsules a day for a dose of 3 grams.

Example 5 A Dietary Supplement Comprised of these Ingredients

The following apoptosis studies were used to select ingredients tosupport bones, joints and the endocrine system. Osteoarthritis ischaracterized by a loss of articular cartilage, accompanied byinflammation, and if is the most common age-associated degenerativedisease.

250 milligrams of Dioscorea villarosa, American yam, induced G2/M cellcycle arrest and activates apoptosis by inhibiting the expression of p21and p27 (Li et al., 2015). If has been used for hundreds of years totreat rheumatism and arthritis-like ailments. It contains thirteenpercent phytoestrogens that support the endocrine system, as explainedby the relative binding affinities (RBAs) of the various hormonesdiscussed above.

250 milligrams of Emblica officinalis, Amalaki, increased the expressionlevels of Fas, a critical member of the apoptotic pathway, which may bea treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis, by activatingprogrammed cell death of human primary osteoclasts that cause bothdiseases. (Penolazzi et al., 2008).

250 milligrams of Coleus forskohliiis, coleus, that naturally reducesinflammation and significantly decreases the expressions of Bcl-2, andBcl-x (Sun et al., 2011). Put the ingredients in a capsule withoutstandard flowing agents, binding agents or fillers and take four ofthese capsules a day for a dose of 3 grams.

Example 6 A Dietary Supplement Comprised of these Ingredients

The following apoptosis studies were used to select ingredients tosupport the brain and nerves.

250 milligrams of Withania somnifera, ashwagangha, reduces Parkinsonsymptoms by reducing Bax and inducing Bcl-2 expression, resulting in thereduced expression of the pro-inflammatory markers of astrocyteactivation (Prakash et al., 2014).

250 milligrams of Astragalus membranaceus, milk vetch roof, containscycloartane triterpene saponin, a phytoestrogen that blocksprocaspase-8, resulting in the inhibition of caspase-3 and procaspase-9activities. These changes are accompanied with down-regulation of Baxand p53, and up-regulation of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL. If is also an adaptogenthat helps the body deal with various stresses, including physical,mental, or emotional stress (Kim, Kim, & Yang, 2014).

250 milligrams of Bacopa monnieri, brahmi, reduces chronic systemicbrain inflammation by down-regulation of NO and TNF-α (Williams, Munch,Gyengesi, & Bennett, 2014). If supports both short- and long-term memoryfunction as well as possibly enhancing learning, and concentration bynourishing the nervous system. It is a neuroprotective agent for theprevention of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia (Piyabhan &Wetchateng, 2014). Therefore, treating patients with Brahmi extract maybe an alternative direction for ameliorating neurodegenerative disordersassociated with the overwhelming oxidative stress, such as Alzheimer'sdisease (Limpeanchob, Jaipan, Rattanakaruna, Phrompittayarat, &Ingkaninan, 2008). Put the ingredients in a capsule without standardflowing agents, binding agents or fillers and take four of thesecapsules a day for a dose of 3 grams.

Example 7 A Dietary Supplement Comprised of these Ingredients

The following apoptosis studies were used to select ingredients thatsupport apoptosis and the immune system at different sites

250 milligrams of Ganoderma lucidum, reishi mushroom, is known as anadaptogen and an immune system modulator. A polysaccharide obtained fromGanoderma lucidum suppressed HL-60 acute myeloid leukemia cells byactivating the p38 and JNK MARK, part of the intrinsic apoptosispathways (Yang, Yang, Zhuang, Qian, & Shen, 2014).

250 milligrams of Dioscorea villarosa, American yam, induces apoptosisby activating caspase-3, caspase-8 and caspase-9, part of the intrinsicapoptosis pathways (Li et al., 2015).

250 milligrams of Lentinus edodes, shiitake mushroom, activatescaspase-3 and caspase-8 in the death receptor intrinsic pathwayresponsible for the apoptotic death of liver cancer, HepG2, cells(Yukawa, Ishikawa, Kawanishi, Tamesada, & Tomi, 2012). Put theingredients in a capsule without standard flowing agents, binding agentsor fillers and take four of these capsules a day for a dose of 3 grams.

Example 8 A Dietary Supplement Comprised of these Ingredients

The following studies were used to select ingredients to providegalactans (manna) to feed the colon and protect against colon cancer(Slattery et al., 1988) and the frequency of acute psychological stressinduced gastrointestinal dysfunction and the number of days with a coldor flu (Hughes et al., 2011).

1500 milligrams of Larix sibirica, larch tree, arabinogalactan manna canstimulate natural killer (NK) cell cytotoxicity, part of the extrinsicapoptosis pathways (Kelly 1999).

1500 milligrams of Brazilian Acacia mearnsii gum tree that contains agalactan with approximately 40%—galactose, 30%—arabinose, 17%—uronicacids, 10%—rhamnose with a trace of glucose (Grein et al., 2013). Put100 grams of the ingredients on a jar without standard flowing agents,binding agents or fillers and take a daily dose of 3 grams per day inyogurt, juice or some other food.

Example 9 A Daily Dietary Supplement Combination Composed of

Two capsules from each of Examples 5, 6, 7 and 3 grams of example 8 fora total of 7.5 grams of freeze-dried ingredients. This is 750 times theminimum effective amount of 10 milligrams explained above.

What is claimed is:
 1. A apoptotic dietary supplement composition basedon the apoptosis pathways effected, comprising an apoptotic effectiveamount of at least two different hunter-gatherers' foods that modulateapoptosis pathways at different sites, and comprises at least onegalactan containing galactose fibers and further comprising no flowingagents, binding agents, or fillers.
 2. A dietary supplement compositionaccording to claim 1, wherein at least three different hunter-gatherers'foods that modulate the apoptosis pathways at different sites, andcomprises at least one galactan containing galactose fibers, andcomprising no standard flowing agents, binding agents or fillers.
 3. Adietary supplement composition according to claim 2, wherein saidcomposition further comprises at least one other ingredient consideredan adaptogen.
 4. A dietary supplement composition according to claim 2,wherein said composition further comprises at least one otherhunter-gatherer ingredient, further comprising at least one from theUnited States, 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC)short-fall nutrients in food form.
 5. A dietary supplement compositionaccording to claims 1 through 4, that is chemically tested to assurecomposition consistency from batch to batch.
 6. A dietary supplementcomposition according to claim 5, that also supports bones, joints, andthe endocrine system.
 7. A dietary supplement composition according toclaim 5, that also supports the brain and nerves.
 8. A dietarysupplement composition according to claim 5, that also supports theimmune system and apoptosis.